Bringing Surplus
Food to Starving
Communities
Since the start of lock down (within 8 months), we have been able to distribute 6,500 tons of food, amounting to 26 million meals, to vulnerable communities across the country. Thank you to all our food and financial donors for making this possible!
We are excited that we can now also expand our reach into Limpopo, Mpumalanga, and the Northern Cape Provinces, procure much-needed basic foods, and gear up operationally. Your support has made this possible.
COVID-19 UPDATE
A recent survey found that one in three adults go to bed hungry because of unemployment and the subsequent loss of income. Fear, depression and discouragement are beginning to set in for many as social distress leaves them hopeless.
FoodForward SA continues to be inundated with requests for food support from all over the country. We are now supporting more than 1,000 Beneficiary Organisations (BOs), reaching nearly 475,000 vulnerable people directly (and an estimated 1,5 million people indirectly) with food parcels to households.
The COVID-19 impact on our economy and food insecurity will be with us for at least 18 – 24 months. With this in mind, FoodForward SA is taking a two-year view to make sure that we create better access to healthy food for more than 750,000 people directly (and 2 million indirectly) through a network of 1,500 registered beneficiary organisations working in vulnerable communities across South Africa, including our most rural communities.
We need your help! To ensure that we can continue to support our expansion, we need a further R43mn over the two-year period. Your partnership will help us reach this goal so that we can address the problem of hunger at scale.
MEASURABLE IMPACT​
TONS OF FOOD DISTRIBUTED
MILLION MEALS
COST PER MEAL
BENEFICIARY ORGANISATIONS SERVEDÂ
BENEFICIARIES SERVED THROUGH OUR DAILY NETWORK
HUNGER IN SOUTH AFRICA
ABOUT FOODFORWARD SA
OUR INITIATIVES
food from farmers and growers while they harvest. Second Harvest is a response to the
more than 50% of all edible agricultural production being wasted because of stringent
specification requirements, cold-chain and processing inadequacies, as well as poor
access to markets.
SA’s scaled tech solution designed to increase the amount of surplus food
that can be recovered. Typically, the foodbanking model is a major
logistical operation involving the collection, sorting, storage
and distribution of surplus food from food donors to beneficiary
organisations (BOs). FoodShare uses virtual technology to
harness more surplus food by connecting retail stores and food
outlets with local BOs for the daily collection of surplus food.
FoodShare is implemented nationally, and includes distant rural
areas, allowing for greater access to food for the poor.
campaign focusses on primary and secondary school children.
FoodForward SA is the implementing partner in South Africa and
today the partnership provides nutritious meals to 35,000 learners
across 48 schools nationally. Learners receive cereal and milk
at the start of the day, allowing them to stay focussed for the
school day.
unemployment, and remove the huge barrier to entry for the disadvantaged
youth in the supply chain, FoodForward SA launched our very own accredited
Supply Chain Youth Internship.
Launched at the beginning of 2019, our inaugural Supply Chain Youth Internship
Programme (YIP) recruited 5 unemployed matriculants with little or no work
experience.
Our Beneficiary Organisations
We cannot celebrate our heritage without paying tribute to our elders and the people who take care of them. In keeping with Heritage Month, we highlight the important work of the Issy Geshen Lamont Home for the Elderly in Durban in Kwa-Zulu Natal.
One of the latest beneficiary organisations to join the FoodForward SA network is Ikageng which is based in Gauteng. Ikageng takes care of orphaned and other vulnerable children in-and-around Soweto. By providing for their basic needs, Ikageng relieves some of the pressure and despair faced by children who have lost parents and guardians to AIDS and are forced to take on adult roles.
One of the organisations we support is the Aryan Benevolent Home (ABH) in Chatsworth (Durban), a registered non-profit organisation that provides services to more than 700 vulnerable persons daily. Established in 1921, ABH is almost a century old charitable organisation that provides succour on a 24-hour basis to the aged, frail, physically and mentally challenged, abused women and orphans.
NEWSLETTER
As more people are going hungry at this challenging time, FoodForward SA is scaling up to reach millions of vulnerable people across all nine provinces. Thank you to all our donors and stakeholders for your partnership!
Banking DetalisÂ
FoodForward South Africa
Bank: Nedbank
Branch Code: 19 87 65
Account: 101 006 9136 (Cheque)
Swift Code: NEDSZAJJ